BluMetric Environmental has acquired an eastern Ontario-based environmental services company for $1.25 million. Ottawa-based BluMetric said last week it has closed a cash-and-share deal to purchase Whitteker Environmental Services. Headquartered in Brinston, about 85 kilometres southeast of Ottawa, Whitteker provides water and wastewater system operations as well as testing services. “We’re excited to welcome WES […]
BluMetric Environmental has acquired an eastern Ontario-based environmental services company for $1.25 million.
Ottawa-based BluMetric said last week it has closed a cash-and-share deal to purchase Whitteker Environmental Services. Headquartered in Brinston, about 85 kilometres southeast of Ottawa, Whitteker provides water and wastewater system operations as well as testing services.
“We're excited to welcome WES to the team and expand our recurring water testing services,” BluMetric CEO Scott MacFabe said in a news release.
“These services are complementary to our current work in professional services and executed under multi-year terms with marquee clients like municipalities. This adds to our capabilities in eastern Ontario while driving high-quality revenues that are not impacted by seasonality.”
According to BluMetric, WES generated revenues of about $950,000 in 2025, with an adjusted EBITDA of about $350,000.
BluMetric, which specializes in water and wastewater solutions, serves customers in the commercial and industrial, military, mining and government sectors in Canada and the U.S.
The company, which has more than 335 employees, had revenues of $62.6 million in fiscal 2025, nearly double the $34.8 million it brought in the previous year.
Ottawa IT services firms join forces
Ottawa-based IT services firms Fuelled Networks and Intega IT have merged, the companies recently announced.
The newly combined company, which will operate under the Intega IT banner, will have more than 30 employees. Headquartered in Westboro, the firm plans to “deepen its focus on cybersecurity, AI advisory and proactive IT leadership for businesses across Ottawa and eastern Ontario,” it said in a news release late last month.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“Our role is to align technology with business goals and support growth,” Intega chief executive John Robinson said in a news release. “Bringing our teams together strengthens our ability to do that at a deeper level.”
Under the new corporate structure, Ernie Sherman, who founded Fuelled Networks in 1998, will serve as president of the combined organization.
“We’ve respected each other as friendly competitors for years,” Sherman said in a news release. “What became clear is how aligned we are in valuing a client-centric approach and investing in our people. Selling to private equity was never the right path for us. Partnering locally allows us to grow while staying true to who we are.”
Kanata software firm Solink expands into T.O.
Less than six months after expanding its head office in Kanata, Solink is growing again.
The 17-year-old software firm, which employs more than 400 people worldwide, opened a new office in Toronto last month. In a news release, Solink said the new space “will serve as a strategic base to attract top talent and accelerate partnerships in Canada's largest business market.”
The move into Canada’s largest city follows last fall’s major expansion of Solink’s headquarters on March Road in Kanata, which more than doubled its footprint as demand for the company’s cutting-edge video-surveillance technology continues to climb.
Solink specializes in cloud-based software that allows customers such as restaurants, manufacturers and property managers to quickly search footage from digital security cameras and marry it with point-of-sale data to pinpoint specific events, such as when employees dole out refunds or a coffee shop is running low on doughnuts.
The company’s AI-powered platform, dubbed Sidekick, can mine millions of hours of video in an instant with just a prompt from simple keywords – helping employers, for example, spot workers who are scrolling their cellphones on company time or who aren’t wearing the proper protective equipment.
Solink’s equipment is now found in 35,000 stores, restaurants and other businesses in more than 60 countries. Organizations that use its products include Tim Hortons, burger chain Five Guys and clothing retailer Moose Knuckles.
Calian executive Derek Clark to exit firm
Calian Group senior executive Derek Clark is leaving the Kanata-based technology company to “pursue a new opportunity,” the firm announced recently.
Clark, who earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from McMaster University and an MBA from Western University, has served as president of Calian’s essential industries group since last October. He previously spent nearly three years as head of Calian’s health business division.
Vice-presidents from across Calian’s various divisions will work together to fill Clark’s role until his replacement is hired, the company said in a news release.
“We have a strong and experienced leadership team within Essential Industries, and I look forward to working closely with them to continue advancing the business,” Calian chief executive Patrick Houston said in a statement.
Now with more than 6,000 employees worldwide, Calian recently announced it was streamlining its business operations from four segments to two in a bid to become more efficient as it chases new opportunities in defence, space and other fast-growing market segments.
The new structure will see Calian reorganized into a defence and space division that will include products and services such as military training, health-care services for armed forces personnel, space technology and cybersecurity services for defence customers; and an essential industries division aimed at commercial customers that will offer health-care technology and services, IT and cybersecurity products, managed services and infrastructure modernization consulting, as well as nuclear and agricultural technology.
Previously, the company operated four divisions: advanced technologies such as satellite components; health-care services; training hardware and software aimed largely at military personnel; and IT and cybersecurity solutions.
Calian reported a net profit of $5.1 million, or 44 cents per diluted share, in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, compared with a loss of $976,000, or eight cents per diluted share, a year earlier. Adjusted EBITDA rose 28 per cent year-over-year to $23 million.
The company’s revenues rose 12 per cent to $208 million, up from $185 million the previous year. 
